Motivational Quotes

Truth

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.